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CA: Security breach at SCC inspires shredding changes

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Dissent

Sarah Rohrs reports that a computer printout containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of students in the 2008 graduating class of Solano Community College accidentally got mixed in with scrap paper used in a mathematics lab. The college believes it recovered all of the pages.

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TN: Sensitive School Info Found Along Road

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

Josh DeVine of WSMV reports that confidential records including 21 students’ names, Social Security numbers and disabilities were found in the street. The students had all attended Bailey Middle School in 2006.

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RI: E-mail error by Brown University leads to changes

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

Joanna Wohlmuth of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Brown’s Office of Financial Aid most likely did not violate federal or state laws when it inadvertently revealed the full names and email addresses of nearly 1,800 students who have initiated an application for University financial assistance in an email reminder to applicants. That sounds about…

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Ca: Huron University College data exposure

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Dissent

The University of Western Ontario has posted a notice on its site: Huron University College is seeking assistance in reaching former students, former applicants to Huron, or former residents in Huron’s dormitories whose personal information may have been accessed during a computer server security breach. Huron is an independent, self-governing institution affiliated with The University…

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University of West Georgia notifies students and faculty of data theft

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Dissent

The Associated Press is reporting that the University of West Georgia has notified nearly 1,300 students and faculty that their personal information was on a laptop that was stolen last summer. The laptop, which contained names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, was in possession of a professor. The university says that it only…

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Penn State: Employees alerted to possible security breach

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Dissent

From the CentreDaily.com: The Social Security numbers of employees working at Penn State Office of Physical Plant in 2000 may have been stolen. On Feb. 20, a virus infiltrated an administrative computer that contained more than 1,000 social security numbers of OPP employees, said OPP spokesman Paul Ruskin.

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